by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches In the to try to got the In before the file of Mr- Little whose farm taken over by the go- Vermont and who claimed that on his property was in line with the price paid in his went largely unnoticed Yet it had Interesting feature and sonic comment not only from this humble corner but also of the officials of Agriculture civil servant and independent Mr Little was told that the value of his farm was van If the forceful taking over factor is considered He claim ed an amount roughly three as much During testi mony and discussion the tried to establish that lor farming purposes the value of the land was only about and that by paying more than two and a half times this the farmer was well com pensated The socalled expert testimony included practicing real estate men and then the fun started The question of what real es tate men know about the value f the land of course is quite open to argument It is possible that they know all there is to know and it is even possible that they know more than that there is also a sneaking suspi cion that they dont know what they are talking about But the case is if Mr Lit tle is to be satisfied with what the government is prepared to give him he would get consid erably less than his neighbors or farmers in similar situations are willing to sell for and sold lor Specifically we have two ob- to the attitude that wields the big stick The first is that undoubtedly sooner or later owner could have had batter price All the eyewash that the real estate experts pouted as to direction of de velopment and areas sounds good hut just not so in the meantime he could have gone on farming and made a living at it If the government were in- tent stop the rising costs of housing by putting a damper on the and an acre land resulting in the present slums high indebted ness and due to the price of land shoddy building it should havt stepped in much earlier and should have had a much comprehensive plan that it did in effect have Secondly what we object to much more vigorously government attempt to show that for farming purpose the farm was only worth thirty some odd thousand dollar We would like to suggest that this is something that should have been brought to the atten tion of the Minister of Agricul ture If have one who should have used his influence to point out that in the main dairy area of Metropolitan Tor onto where over percent of the Dominions population to be found a farm that is operat ed properly is worth more to the farmer operating it than what the government is willing to give the owner for subdivi sion It is quite conceivable that with a good average herd on 100 acres the owner could have grossed a year In ad dition he possibly would have had as good a home on it as any of the two by four matchboxes they will erect on it at apiece Just because the offi cial thinking has relegated the farmer to the hillbilly status and the official mentality that turns like a hand cranked mo del T does not admit- agricul ture to the higher credit rating it is entitled to is no reason why Mr Little should be sing led out as the whipping boy We do not know Mr Little but we are sure that any self respecting farmer will be hor rified at this official attempt to blacken the whole business of farming with expert testimony from the very man into whose pockets the present real estate boom plays and with the tacit approval of the very depart ment which should defend the farmers position ANNIVERSARY Mr and Mrs Glover I Newmarket celebrated their wedding anniversary yester day They entertained their friends in the evening and re ceived many cards and best wish es ATTENDS CONFERENCE Reeve Edward and York County Clerk J Smith will attend the annual confer ence of the Ontario Municipal Officers association at Windsor The meetings will be held from Aug to inclusive F rom the F lies of and 50 Years Ago Serving Newmarket and the rural The Newmarket Era of North York The Herald IMS August 1931 August Published every Thursday at Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Exprm Limited Subscription for two years for one year In advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Second Mail Tost Office Department Ottawa I on John Struthera Womens Editor Managing Editor George Hatkett Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY Colonel Nasser has presented us with an opportunity to re gain a lot of lost ground in the struggle against dictatorship Let us use this opportunity to demonstrate that we have a policy that can be defended on grounds of law and of morality Nassers seizure of the Suez Canal is similar to Mossadeghs tenure of the AngloIranian Oil Company In each case there was a violation of the property rights of a company owned by Western capitalists In each case a dictator with ridiculous ly little military power was able to win the plaudits of the new nations of Asia and Africa by defying a Great Power The IranianOil issue was set tled only after the country had been driven to the brink of bankruptcy by the loss of the revenues from the company But the settlement established no principles It did not show that the West had any policy for meeting similar cases In deed it was luck that enabled us to salvage anything from the operation luck in the shape of the Iranians incapacity to operate the oil company We are at a double disadvan tage in dealing with Asian or African dictators Any use of force from our side is apt to be as a return to imperi alism And use of force TO MEET NASSERS CHALLENGE vindicate property claims no longer commends iUelf to the conscience of mankind Does that mean that we resign ourselves to loss of all investments in Asia and Af rica Does it mean that we should let the Nassers get away with kind of agression It does not The foreign polity of the Western democracies most conspicuously of the United States and the British Common wealth is undergoing a dra matic change Instead of bas ing our policies on considera tions of narrow national self- interest we are beginning to re cognize a duty to humanity as a whole The sums we arc de voting to Colombo Plan Point Pour Program United Nations Technical Aid are still pitifully small in relation to our wealth or to needs of the poorer countries but those measures establish a principle they ad mit that we are our brother keepers In giving aid to the needy we have tried to respect national sensitivity by not using our aid as a weapon for making the re cipients into satellites That is a wise policy We have also given aid with very little atten tion to the kind of government we were helping That is a great mistake practically impossible help a country without strengthening whatever government is in power at the time Helping a dictatorridden country means helping dictatorship Helping Egypt is helping Nasser Unfortunately have been helping a lot of dictators in the hope that they would help us against the Soviet Union Ad mittedly it is important to strengthen the forces that can be counted on to oppose com- But what governments can we count on A democratic government is likely to persist in its policies because of its dependence on public opinion which is slow to change Dictators reverse them selves overnight That is one of their boasts It is also a good reason for considering them un trustworthy We may think that Franco is sufficiently anti- communist to be a reliable ally but we should recall that al though he owed his position to Hitler and Mussolini he didnt do much to help them when they needed his help must remember that is If our faith in democracy is genuine if we believe that de mocracy is the greatest good we can help a nation to achieve we should make the spread of de mocracy a major objective We might do well to confine our aid to democraciei and to govern ments which are preparing Large Lily Mr Landmarks removed During Avenue has had a mar- the storm on Monday a couple of vcllous bloom- large trees- an elm and a willow this week The lily is white W blown across the creek and with red raised spots and gold still another landmark has been bands and measured over a foot removed the verandah in front from petal tip to petal tip Furniture store There has come to adorn the A costly drain The drain from Era office a Newmarket water the Primary school which wart color picture by not carried to the sewer when it of Toronto The painting depicts was put in lust year but town as viewed from a van- lowed to run out became point on Hill with at the end with the result that the Christian Church as the almost the whole drain has to bo focal point of the vista It will dug out the tile being nearly fill- be a delight when the wintry with mud Preparations are winds do blow to upon this being made this time to prevent scene and be assured that when this difficulty in future comes twill be even as Very Attractive The three new tis colored here signs just completed for the Of- Saturday market corn a Specialty Co are said to doz or for potatoes finest single signs in Canada a bag or 20c a basket apples They are ft long and 14 It duchess a small basket eggs can easily be read from to a butter to windows as the train a lb pickling onions for through the town Some of their people for democracy Mr and Mrs son and family spent Tuesday at Beach and motored to Thornton on Wednesday after noon the large trees on the flats that obstructed the view have been removed The Newmarket Band Among its notes on the Band Tourna ment in Orillia the Packet Napier leader of th f V- Newmarket Band is an exmem ber of one of the famous Scottish cases we should make all concessions to avoid weakening the democratic re gime Dictatorships like Nas sers are different and should be treated differently In a dictatorship public opin ion is mo rely the dictators opinion Nasser Nationalism is of course a vi tal and violent force that can not be ignored Even in a de mocracy nationalism may in duce the government to make Miss Lewis of Toronto unreasonable demands such as Miss Eileen Rowland and Miss the Greek demand for Lilian Hart are spending a weeks rendered that band ate cession of Cyprus In such at Big Cedar Point ear Rev and Mrs Andrews and more than any other selection family returned on Tuesday and there were many who on the ter a pleasant holiday at Point it were ready to award Aux Pines on St Marys River Newmarket first prize and at Kensington Point on the Mrs Anderson of North Channel Marie who has Visiting net Mr and Mrs Mrs son Chief Anderson left to and daughter Graham day for South Bend Indiana strengthen his control over his of Cotlingwood spent Sunday SA people by giving them diplo- with Mrs Clark Mary Clark who Margaret Wddel of tor- matte victories instead of spent her holidays at Colling- onto spending ten days in improvement Every vie- wood and Beach returned town with fer brother Mr Ora tory we let him win adds to his with them ham prestige and to the prestige of Mr and Mrs Win Mrs Drayton and of dictatorship in general Our and family have returned from and Mr A of policy should be to defeat and a visit to Toronto and Niagara Toronto were visiting a Mr discredit dictators everywhere Falls Bo girls over Sunday If we apply these policies to Mrs and children have Mr Stephen left foe Nasser our program becomes returned home after two weeks Indian Head on the clear First we stop alt aid to vacation in Peterborough esters excursion and Mr Root Nasser Second we insist that Miss Beatrice Mills RN has for Moose Jaw he live up to his obligation to returned to her home in Toronto Mr Jos Meads of Toronto visit keep the Suez Canal open to after visiting friends in town and his Mr Robert Meads the shipping of all nations vicinity Mora concretely we must make an unqualified demand for the opening of the Canal to Israeli shipping and compel compli ance with that demand 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